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My family has been in America since the 1700s. We have witnessed a lot of history in that time. I can’t ask my ancestors about the revolutionary war, but my relatives did have some things to say about more recent events. The LA riots, the death of Kurt Cobain, The Challenger disaster, Star Wars, and the Kennedy assassination all of these contributed to the America we are to day. And my relatives were kind enough to share their experiences with these events. December 22, 1963; president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas leaving the nation in shock. My grandma sissy remembers when she heard the news. “That was the saddest day ever” she said. “I was living in a trailer in Buellton watching tv and holding Kim. She was just a little …show more content…

People throughout Los Angeles were outraged. Riots and Looting began soon after the verdict was announced. My father was at a friend’s apartment in Long Beach when it started. When he heard about the riots from the tv he decided he would wait for things to calm down then go home. He said “There were a lot of angry people in Long Beach. And gangs were pretty big there. The Crips were big in Long Beach. I figured I should just wait until things calmed down a little bit.” At some point he opened the window to see what things were like and if he could make the drive back to Huntington Beach. He said “I could hear tires screeching and and people yelling from down below. It was a tall building so I could see the fires all around. Just buildings lit on fire.” He stayed until there until about 3 am. He recounted the next morning at the halfway house where he had a job helping the tenants. “One of the tenants was getting ready to go to work. He was a security guard in somewhere in LA. I told him ‘don’t go to work today. It’s complete madness out there. Just stay home for the day.’ But he decided to go anyway. Luckily he was okay.” The riots lasted until May 4, 1992 with 63 killed and over 2000 injured. News of the riots rang out throughout the nation attesting to the frustration of the black community. It was ugly and gruesome and shined a spotlight on racial injustice in …show more content…

The nation grieved for the brave crew who lost their lives in the disaster. My Aunt Kim remembers where she was when she found out. “I was just out of high school and working at a bakery. I was in the back with some of the other girls who worked there when we heard the challenger had exploded. We knew that the teacher had died and everything like that. And… it was very sobering.” The Challenger explosion was a traumatic experience for America. NASA realized they hadn’t been careful enough. The explosion could have been avoided. The United States government and NASA from that point on realized that they couldn’t rush their projects at the expense of people's lives. It left a permanent impression on those who watched and reminds us that The United States is not perfect or infallible, that seven people died unnecessarily because of NASA’s decision to launch when conditions weren’t

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